Linearized stability analysis of stationary solutions for surface diffusion with boundary conditions

SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1031-1056

  Garcke, Harald ^a   Ito, Kazuo ^b   Kohsaka, Yoshihito ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues; Gradient flow; Isoperimetric problems; Stability of stationary solutions; Surface diffusion

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GRADIENT FLOW; ISOPARAMETRIC PROBLEMS; STABILITY OF STATIONARY SOLUTIONS; SURFACE DIFFUSION;

LINEARIZATION;

EID: 22544439362     PISSN: 00361410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036141003437939     Document Type: Article

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